Iran has ordered a week-long closure of schools, universities and cultural centers as it tries to curb the outbreak of coronavirus that has killed 8 people in the country.

Alcohol-related deaths in the United States rose sharply from roughly 2012 through 2016, with the biggest increases among white and Latino women, according to a new study.

A Russian cryonics firm offers clients the hope of returning to life after death in the future, even though the science behind it is not proven.

Hundreds of children in DR Congo's lawless east have fled when fighting erupted near a disputed gold mine, leading to seven deaths.

More than 23,000 people in the UK died from a range of illnesses and conditions associated with winter weather last year, according to a shocking new report.

Measles has killed more than 5,000 people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo since January, WHO says.

The US military says 2 service members have been killed in a helicopter crash in Afghanistan.

A panel of UN experts have found that the detention conditions of former Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi may have directly led to his death in June. 

"In the 1980s, CIA-recruited death squads were responsible for over 300,000 deaths in Nicaragua, Honduras and Guatemala, countless thousands more brutally tortured, and millions forced into exile," writes Stephen Lendman.

Tehran is monitoring developments in Iraq with care and diligence, says the Iranian foreign ministry.